Short-payment of royalties – when do post-production costs cross the line into unreasonableness?
This next-to-last entry in Blawgletter's seven-part series on the hottest oil & gas claims for returns to the theme of royalty owners who receive less than they believe the lease entitles them to. Part 6 addresses what happens when the operator deducts
Big victory for big oil . . . and big gas
The Fifth Circuit handed a large win today to oil and gas lessees in the Lone Star State.
The dispute that the court addressed concerned computation of royalties, which an oil and gas producer pays to landowners and others in return for the right
You know what the phrase "legal costs" refers to, right? It means the amount that a plaintiff spends to achieve a recovery by way of pressing a lawsuit? US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 133 S. Ct. 1537, 1550-51 (2013) (treating "legal costs" as a party's "costs of recovery").
You would never equate "legal costs" with damages – payment for actual